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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/485164/some-freight-railway-lines-will-remain-closed-for-months-due-to-cyclone-gabrielle-damage-kiwirail
A large slip fell over the main railway freight line between Auckland and Northland during
A massive slip has closed the main railway freight line between Auckland and Northland.
Hundreds of freight containers will now have to be trucked on Northland’s already fragile roads each week.
It was one of a number of KiwiRail lines that will remain closed over the coming months.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/483446/derailed-logging-train-in-te-puke-could-take-weeks-to-get-back-on-track
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/485160/cyclone-gabrielle-gisborne-couple-say-council-let-their-community-down
Most of their possessions have ended up at the dump and the house is unliveable.
“When I first started going out with Ben, we stayed in his mum’s garage… we’re back 20 years later,” Sarah said last week while reflecting on the couple’s ordeal.
Ben, a keen musician, lost over $100,000 of music equipment, while Sarah got emotional when she thought about losing her renovated bathroom and kitchen.
Added to the sadness of material loss, Sarah felt there had been a lack of care shown by the council.
On the night of the disaster, she messaged Tairāwhiti Civil Defence to ask if her family should evacuate from their Waipaoa Road home, but never received the directive.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/485159/rob-campbell-very-disappointed-over-removal-as-epa-chair
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/485156/sas-trooper-death-charge-dismissed-army-exempt-from-health-and-safety-law
Has government embracing free market and neolib economics and turning away from attending to own country duties, now lost us all chances of gaining some traction to contain our resources, to nut out with each other in organised controlled discussion (not at protests outiide Parliament), a working system utilising all the energies that have gone to waste while imported eager beavers have paid to come in and are showing us up as losers?
We should have utilised our own and had a nation of CommunityVolunteer Armies like the Student Army as an esteemed group, trained and ready for helping their locality and the country.
Follow down the line of the news headings above. The army at the bottom, is it the base of an upside down pyramid? Doesn’t the army usually step up when there is chaos, and not always wisely (see Israel/Palestine)?
Am I, a social democrat rationalist, allowed on here? The freemarketeer Lprent, at least had the honesty to tell me I wasn’t wanted at The Standard. You silence by silencing off stage. Yep, you’re down there with our enemy over 40 years.
Yeah, you can get away with smothering me off-stage. Just a little more juice goes out of our cause. But you can go on a few more years. You’ve seen Chris’s trajectory.
You wouldn’t do this to a famous person. Try to understand the people’s rational cause.